Always trying to look for the means of removal and the sleight of hand that drew our attention away from the obvious. Reinforce an idea and make sure you keep repeating it and then debate and argue whilst everyone ignores whats in front of their eyes. I have always maintained a vehicle was used because I cant imagine anyone would attempt to carry/run away with a child over their shoulder. A car is the most obvious but it seems that sometimes answers were given before the questions were asked!I keep wandering about something that has kept troubling me:

The pram? (double pram that was borrowed)Who was in it and where was it pushed to?Who got near enough to see? (A wave from the beach doesnt count except for reinforcement).

‘As we were only going to be away for a week, we’d decided not to bring S & A’s double buggy with us,’

P57. Tuesday 1st May – Trip to beach

‘We borrowed a double buggy from MW to make the walk easier for S & A’This is then followed by:

‘The weather wasn’t great: in fact on the beach it started to rain. A bit of rain is not something that bothers a Scotsman like Gerry, but S & A didn’t like the feel of the wet sand and insisted, in the way two year olds do, on being carried.’

Not so easy that, three little ones & a double buggy trying to get across wet (or dry) sand, with two of them demanding to be carried.

Anyway, it was CW that introduced the buggy at the start of the holiday.

It should be an easy thing for the police to check - just go back to the checkin at the airport and pull up their passenger flight details and see how much luggage was checked through. Did they check a buggy? They'd be able to tell by the weight. Did they carry it on? Carry-on baggage is noted also. A baggage tag is generated for every piece of luggage. If it's a computerized baggage tag and coded, there are details. I can't imagine in this day and age of security concerns that anything is ever deleted anymore.

@canada12 wrote:It should be an easy thing for the police to check - just go back to the checkin at the airport and pull up their passenger flight details and see how much luggage was checked through. Did they check a buggy? They'd be able to tell by the weight. Did they carry it on? Carry-on baggage is noted also. A baggage tag is generated for every piece of luggage. If it's a computerized baggage tag and coded, there are details. I can't imagine in this day and age of security concerns that anything is ever deleted anymore.

I seem to remember the barcoded luggage receipts were stuck to the passports photographed in Apt. 5A.

My experience of flying is that they allow you to take the buggy to the steps of the plane. If you remember the bus video, one of the group had a child in a buggy on the bus, Fiona I think. The McCanns did not have one on the bus, not set up at any rate.

The most useful purpose of not checking the buggy on as luggage is it helps you "contain" the children in the airport. Three kids under three and two adults is hard work when they want to wander everywhere at an airport. Neither is it logical in larger airports with long walking distances.

Whether or not the airline would allow that big three wheeler to be brought to the steps is doubtful, IMO. The light strollers are acceptable though.

They usually tag the buggy itself but no additional tag is given if you take it to the plane.

@sami wrote:My experience of flying is that they allow you to take the buggy to the steps of the plane. If you remember the bus video, one of the group had a child in a buggy on the bus, Fiona I think. The McCanns did not have one on the bus, not set up at any rate.

The most useful purpose of not checking the buggy on as luggage is it helps you "contain" the children in the airport. Three kids under three and two adults is hard work when they want to wander everywhere at an airport. Neither is it logical in larger airports with long walking distances.

Whether or not the airline would allow that big three wheeler to be brought to the steps is doubtful, IMO. The light strollers are acceptable though.

They usually tag the buggy itself but no additional tag is given if you take it to the plane.

That is a very good point Sami re the children at the airport and the walking distances. I fly regularly into and out of East Midlands Airport, the one the McCanns used for the holiday, and when the boarding gate information goes up there is always a dash to the gate and the distance can be a good 5 to 10 minute walk at fast pace, so how did they manage that with 3 small children beats me. Also once into the departure lounge you have not got the use of a trolley so any hand luggage also has to be either carried or wheeled. So hand luggage, and three small children without a buggy does not ring true for me.

Eddie and Keela alerted to items and places concerned with the McCanns - and importantly to no other items or places.

According to Eddie and Keela, the body of Madeleine McCann lay lifeless behind the sofa in Apartment 5a, clinging to the only thing from which she could derive any comfort; a soft toy called 'Cuddle cat'.

Kate's book 'madeleine', Page 219: "Did they really believe that a dog could smell the 'odour of death' three months later from a body that had been so swiftly removed?"

After forensic analysis of the 'Last Photo' there is little doubt now that the pool photo CANNOT POSSIBLY have been taken on the Thursday 3rd May, but most likely on the Sunday 29th April. So, where was Madeleine at lunchtime on Thursday?

John McCann:"This was terrible for them, Kate dressed Amelie in her sister's pyjamas and the baby said: "Maddy's jammies, where is Maddy?"Martin Roberts:"If Madeleine's pyjamas had not, in fact, been abducted then neither had Madeleine McCann."Dr Martin Roberts: A Nightwear Job

Death Toll in McCann Case

Gerry McCann called for an example to be made of 'trolls'. SKY reporter Martin Brunt doorstepped Brenda Leyland on 2 October 2014 after a 'Dossier' was handed in to Police by McCann supporters. She was then found dead in a Leicester hotel room the next day. Brenda paid the price.

Colin Shalke died suddenly in mysterious circumstances with a significant amount of morphine in his system. At the Inquest the coroner said there was no evidence as to how he had come to take morphine, and no needle mark was found.

Ex-Met DCI Andy Redwood had a "revelation moment" on BBC1's Crimewatch on 14th October 2013 when he announced that Operation Grange had eliminated the Tanner sighting - which opened up the 'window' of opportunity' from 3 mins to 45 mins, in accordance with their remit, to allow the staged abduction to happen.

Tracey Kandohla: "A McCann pal told The Sun Online: "Some of the savings have been siphoned off from the Find Maddie Fund into a fixed asset account, which financial experts have advised them to do. It can be used for purchases like buying a house or building equipment."

The McCanns, Operation Grange and the BBC are all working towards one goal - to make us keep looking at what happened (or didn't happen) on 3rd May, instead of looking at what happened days earlier. There is NO evidence of an abduction. Smithman is ALL they have got. Without that, they are sunk. No wonder Operation Grange clings on to Smithman...

Lord Bernard Hogan-Howe QPM, retired Met Commissioner: "There will be a point at which we and the Government will want to make a decision about what the likely outcome is."

Dr Gonçalo Amaral, retired PJ Coordinator: "The English can always present the conclusions to which they themselves arrived in 2007. Because they know, they have the evidence of what happened, they don't need to investigate anything. When MI5 opens their files, then we will know the truth."